Frank Phillips Home
1107 SE Cherokee Avenue
Bartlesville, OK 74003
918.336.2491
fphillipshome@okhistory.org
Curator: Jim Goss

Museum Hours
Wed - Sat	10am to 5pm
2nd Sunday of the month	1pm to 5pm
$3.00 Donation Requested

Frank Phillips Home

December Events

Santa's Cottage Sunday, December 13, 2:00pm-4:30pm
Bring the kids to see Santa and Mrs. Santa in the Frank Phillips Home Garden Cottage and a camera to get some great photos! No admission fee for this event. Santa and Mrs. Santa are portrayed by Oklahoma Historical Society reenactors, Brandon and Rachel Reid. Tours of the Home will be available beginning at 1:00 p.m. While at the Home on December 13th, enjoy the music of Tuba Christmas, a music concert in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach, and compose music for instruments in the tuba family. Instruments in the tuba family that often appear are the tuba, sousaphone, baritone, and euphonium, though some participants bring rarer members of the family such as the hélicon, contrabass bugle, ophicleide and serpent. Tubachristmases vary in size from a minimum of four instruments (two euphoniums and two tubas), to several hundred at the biggest events. Any musician can play in a Tubachristmas as long as he or she plays an instrument in the tuba family. Musicians who attend usually range in age from 8 years old to over 80. There is a $5 participation fee and the booklet of music costs $15 for a small version or $20 for a large version. The booklet comes in bass and treble clef. Attending the concert is free.

Christmas Evening Tours of the Frank Phillips Home Thursday, December 17, 6:30pm-8:30pm and Monday, December 21, 5:00pm-8:30pm.
Wander through the Mansion at your leisure and see it in all of its Christmas Splendor! Bring the children to see our many varied Christmas Trees on display, especially our Children's Tree on the 3rd floor, and our train exhibit in the Home’s Interpretive Center. Talk with Father Christmas and his wife. Admission fee: $5 for adults, children 11 and under are free. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Frank Phillips Home.

About the Home

Frank Phillips, an ambitious barber-turned-bond salesman from Iowa, visited Bartlesville in 1903 to assess business possibilities in the surrounding oil fields. He returned permanently two years later with his wife, Jane, and young son, John. After a series of failures that nearly caused him to abandon the business, a string of eighty-one straight successful oil wells insured success. By 1909 he had completed construction of the Frank Phillips Home. From then until Frank's death in 1950, the home was the setting from which he, his family and friends, and the community that grew up around them, played a key role in the development of the oil industry in America.

The 26 room Neo-Classical mansion was remodeled twice. The last time in 1930. Thereafter, neither the Phillips nor their granddaughter who donated the home to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1973, made significant changes to the interior. Thus, with few exceptions, the furniture, decorations and even personal effects are original. As a consequence, the Home depicts the lives, tastes, fashions, and values of the Phillips and their world. As an example of the personal home of an Oklahoma oil millionaire, it is a window through which you can step back to those times, and experience the home life of one of America's most fascinating oil men.

For more information visit the Frank Phillips Home website at www.frankphillipshome.org.

View images of the Phillips House from the Oklahoma Film & Music Office.